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Catalogue entry

FWN 957
Six baigneuses; Les Ondines
c.1887
Alternate titles: Badende; Badende (Frauen); Badende Kvinder (Les Ondines); Baigneuses; Les Baigneuses; Les Grandes Baigneuses study; Les Ondines; Les Ondines (Six baigneuses); Six baigneuses; Six baigneuses: also known as Les Ondines
Rewald (588): c.1887; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Venturi (538): 1883–85
Oil on canvas
13 x 17 5/16 in. (33 x 44 cm)
Vollard X stockbook: no. 5228, baigneur [baigneuses?] (17,000 Fr)
Vollard archives: photo no. 266 and [194], Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1885; Fayet
Private collection, Geneva

Keywords

Provenance
Gustave Fayet, Paris (until 1910)
Galerie E. Druet, Paris
Baron Denys Cochin, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Nov. 11, 1912)
Bernheim-Jeune, Lausanne (Dec. 31, 1915)
Josef Müller, Solothurn (Dec. 31, 1915);
Private collection, Geneva
Exhibition History
1910–11 London
Grafton Galleries, London, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, November 8, 1910–January 15, 1911, no. 2, as Les Ondines, lent by Galeries Druet.
1914a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 6, as Les Baigneuses, for sale.
1914 Copenhagen
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, Fransk Malerkunst fra det 19nde Aarhundrede [French Art of the Nineteenth Century], May 15–June 30, 1914, no. 21, as Badende Kvinder (Les Ondines), lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 38, as Les Ondines, 1885, lent by Private collection.
1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 48, lent by Private collection, Switzerland.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 50, pl. 180 (reversed).
1999–2000 Riehen/Basel
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 13, ill., p. 40, as Six baigneuses: also known as Les Ondines.
2017 Martigny
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 96, ill. lent by Private collection.
Published References
Meier-Graefe 1910
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1910, ill. p. 31.
Burger 1913
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 50, as Badende (Frauen).
Meier-Graefe 1913
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, ill. p. 30.
Meier-Graefe 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 183.
Burger 1919
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1919, p. 53.
Burger 1920
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1920, pl. 53.
Meier-Graefe 1922
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 222.
Burger 1923
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1923, pl. 53.
Faure 1923a
Faure, Élie. P. Cézanne. Paris, 1923, pl. 59, as Baigneuses.
Cheney 1924
Cheney, Sheldon. Primer of Modern Art. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924, p. 47, ill.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 109, as Badende.
Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXXXIII.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 538, ill. vol. II, as Les Ondines.
Faure 1941
Faure, Élie. Historie de l'Art, vol. IV. Paris: Plon, 1941, fig. 93.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 162, listed p. 173-174.
Nicolson 1951
Nicolson, Bendict. "Post-Impressionism and Roger Fry." The Burlington Magazine 93, no. 574 (January 1951), p. 13, note 16.
Sérullaz 1959
Sérullaz, Maurice. Les Peintres Impressionnistes. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1959, p. 127, ill., as Les Grandes Baigneuses study, dated 1883–85.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 59, ill.
Düchting 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 141, ill.
Rewald 1996
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 588, ill. vol. 2, as Six baigneuses; Les Ondines.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, fig. 10 p. 21, p. 276, no. 4, ill., as Les Ondines (Six baigneuses), 1883-85.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 207; vol. 2, p. 144, as Six baigneuses.
Robins 2010
Robins, Anna Gruetzner. "'Manet and the Post-Impressionists': a checklist of the exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), p. 785.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 235, ill., as Les Ondines, installation photograph from 1914 exhibition, p. 102.
Notes

There is a Derain drawing after this work illustrated in Rewald,1996, p. 394.

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Record last updated April 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Six baigneuses; Les Ondines, c.1887 (FWN 957)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=932 (accessed on March 29, 2024).